February 2018

The figure of the “good man” or “real man” is a common trope in Papua New Guinean and international campaigns to address HIV and AIDS, and violence against women. This figure is imagined as a perfect role model who is compliant with the directives of prevention slogans: a wearer of condoms, a...

The United Nations Pacific Strategy (UNPS) 2018-2022 is a five year strategic framework that outlines the collective response of the UN system to the development priorities in 14 Pacific Island Countries and Territories, namely Cook Islands, Fiji, Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, Nauru,...

Little is known about how a development partnership between an INGO and a NSAG can contribute towards alternative and localised approaches to meeting the SDGs. This paper reports on the case study of such a partnership in Shan State, Myanmar. It draws on qualitative fieldwork conducted in a...

One way in which humour might be of value and interest to IR is as a field of practice through which subjects might insert themselves into discourses or discussions from which they are apparently forbidden. A focus on comic practices might therefore offer an unusual perspective on the multifaceted...